Drill vs Title - What's the difference?
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To create (a hole) by removing material with a (tool).
To practice, especially in a military context.
(ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
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To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
To hit or kick with a lot of power.
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(slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
(obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on .
* Addison
(obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
* Jonathan Swift
A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise).
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, title= (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
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Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
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An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
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, chapter=1 (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
A publication.
A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
(mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
(bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
(sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
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To assign a title to; to entitle.
As nouns the difference between drill and title
is that drill is drill, exercise while title is a prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification see also.As a verb title is
to assign a title to; to entitle.drill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
- He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
- Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
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- Is this going to take long? I've got a hot date to drill the flautist at the symphony tonight.'' - Brian Griffin, ''
- waters drilled through a sandy stratum
- (Thomson)
- She drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age
- This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
Noun
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- Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "drill")Derived terms
* dental drill * dentist's drill * drill barrow * drill bow * drill harrow * drill plough, drill plow * drill sergeantEtymology 2
Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.Noun
(en noun)External links
* (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus) * (Mandrillus leucophaeus)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l), (l)Synonyms
* (l)title
English
(wikipedia title)Noun
(en noun)- With his former title greet Macbeth.
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- Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.